Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests

Rapid tree carbon stock recovery in managed Amazonian forests

(2015) Ervan Rutishauser et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Demographic drivers of tree biomass change during secondary succession in northeastern Costa Rica

(2015) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biomass is the main driver of changes in ecosystem process rates during tropical forest succession

(2015) Madelon Lohbeck et al.   ECOLOGY

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Loss of secondary-forest resilience by land-use intensification in the Amazon

(2015) Catarina C. Jakovac et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

How does biomass distribution change with size and differ among species? An analysis for 1200 plant species from five continents

(2015) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The potential of secondary forests

(2015) F. Bongers et al.   SCIENCE

Testing Chronosequences through Dynamic Approaches: Time and Site Effects on Tropical Dry Forest Succession

(2014) Francisco Mora et al.   BIOTROPICA

Stand age and soils as drivers of plant functional traits and aboveground biomass in secondary tropical dry forest

(2014) Justin M. Becknell et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Perturbations in the carbon budget of the tropics

(2014) John Grace et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Improved allometric models to estimate the aboveground biomass of tropical trees

(2014) Jérôme Chave et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Markedly divergent estimates of Amazon forest carbon density from ground plots and satellites

(2014) Edward T. A. Mitchard et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Integrating Stand and Soil Properties to Understand Foliar Nutrient Dynamics during Forest Succession Following Slash-and-Burn Agriculture in the Bolivian Amazon

(2014) Eben N. Broadbent et al.   PLoS One

Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot

(2014) C. Banks-Leite et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon stocks and accumulation rates in tropical secondary forests at the scale of community, landscape and forest type

(2013) D.E. Orihuela-Belmonte et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Succession of Ephemeral Secondary Forests and Their Limited Role for the Conservation of Floristic Diversity in a Human-Modified Tropical Landscape

(2013) Michiel van Breugel et al.   PLoS One

Carbon pools recover more quickly than plant biodiversity in tropical secondary forests

(2013) P. A. Martin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Scale-dependence of aboveground carbon accumulation in secondary forests of Panama: A test of the intermediate peak hypothesis

(2012) Joseph Mascaro et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Aboveground biomass in mature and secondary seasonally dry tropical forests: A literature review and global synthesis

(2012) Justin M. Becknell et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Convergence and divergence in alternative successional pathways in Central Amazonia

(2012) G. Bruce Williamson et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Patterns and Correlates of Tropical Dry Forest Structure and Composition in a Highly Replicated Chronosequence in Yucatan, Mexico

(2011) Juan Manuel Dupuy et al.   BIOTROPICA

Benchmark map of forest carbon stocks in tropical regions across three continents

(2011) S. S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

Secondary forests on anthropogenic soils in Brazilian Amazonia conserve agrobiodiversity

(2010) André Braga Junqueira et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Climate is a stronger driver of tree and forest growth rates than soil and disturbance

(2010) Marisol Toledo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Cost-effectiveness of dryland forest restoration evaluated by spatial analysis of ecosystem services

(2010) J. C. Birch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid Recovery of Biomass, Species Richness, and Species Composition in a Forest Chronosequence in Northeastern Costa Rica

(2009) Susan G. Letcher et al.   BIOTROPICA

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Changes in tree and liana communities along a successional gradient in a tropical dry forest in south-eastern Brazil

(2009) Bruno G. Madeira et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Successional Change and Resilience of a Very Dry Tropical Deciduous Forest Following Shifting Agriculture

(2008) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   BIOTROPICA

Diversity and structure of regenerating tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: Geographic patterns and environmental drivers

(2008) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Beyond Deforestation: Restoring Forests and Ecosystem Services on Degraded Lands

(2008) R. L. Chazdon   SCIENCE